Touchdown Hills
Touchdown Hills is a group of snow-covered hills extending south from Vahsel Bay on the east side of the Filchner Ice Shelf. So named by the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1957 because one of the expedition members, while piloting a plane fitted with skis, mistook these hills for clouds and hit them, bounding upwards undamaged.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Touchdown Hills
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 463 metres
- Categories: hill and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-78.11898° or 78° 7′ 8″ southLongitude
-35.00041° or 35° 0′ 2″ westElevation
463 metres (1,519 feet)Open location code
29H6VXJX+CROpenStreetMap ID
node 9255585696OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Touchdown Hills” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Touchdown Hills”
- Chinese: “塔奇當山”
- Dutch: “Touchdown Hills”
- German: “Touchdown Hills”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Touchdown Hills”
- Swedish: “Touchdown Hills”
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